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...exports made their recommendations at a time when Massachusetts is holding public hearings to decide whether to adopt permanent limits on the amount of EDB allowed to foods. EDB became an important health issue last month when checks found supermarket goods with EDB levels as high as 2000 parts per billion, and the Commonwealth responded by imposing a temporary limit of one part per billion...
Each member of the panel agreed that EDB constitutes a tremendous health hazard and that even the smallest traces present too great a rink. EDB has been linked to liver cancer in laboratory animals, but its effects on humans have yet to be fully tested...
Even in the smallest samples, the odds of EDB molecules making contact with cells "are odds we'd all like in a lottery but not odds we'd want in adjusting to a carcinogen," said Dr. David Ozonoff, president of the Massachusetts Public Health Association...
Although the panel strongly praised the watchdog efforts of State Department of Public Health, the department can only do "a certain amount of monitoring to enforce the limit it's set," said Nancy Ridley, who directs the EDB testing program in Massachusetts...
...believe that there are any cases where EDB has caused damage to human beings," said Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant director of University Food Service...